rebuttering

Updated: May 27, 2025

While they ate, dipping their toast in the coffee, buttering and rebuttering it, they chattered as tirelessly as if they had been deprived of each other's society and confidence for weeks. The morning was dark and foggy, and a coal fire slumbered in the grate, giving out a bitter, acrid smell.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Martie, the Unconquered